Room for talk show to grow
EX sports jock Michael Stra
han is so busy he’s like a jock in the box. After giving the finger to
Kelly Ripa in order to be a coperson on “GMA,” he’s also a Fox-TV sports analyst, does a daytime “Strahan and Sara” whatever, joined that $100,000 pyramid thing, and is teaming with Cour
teney Cox for a Spectrum series. Multi-busy. He must have found time to make his children during a timeout.
ABC ponderers are pondering how to smooth the lone glitch, which is stuffing behinds into studio audience seats for his “Strahan and Sara” with Sara Haines. Yeah, they can give tickets away. Yeah, they’re adding another host,
Keke Palmer, hoping to attract younger viewers. But that could mean adding another name onto the show’s title, which could make it sound like it’s a law firm.
Eavesdroppers have heard ABC big-mouths talk of maybe paying people — like the union wage for actors — to plop there and laugh and applaud. Great idea — but if cashfor-claps is the solution, they could just hire former VP Joe Burble as a seat filler.
Lots of money to raise
IT’S piggy bank time. Fundraisers. The Hamptons hills are alive with the sound of cash registers. August brings the Dumbocrat chorus line.
Bootleg’s cookout and handout’s Saturday, Aug. 31. Easthampton. Sept. 1 Bridgehampton. Sept. 2 Southampton. He’ll be back with his crayons. Also comes Biden, who’ll try to get his facts straight. Also comes Kamala, who’ll try to get Biden straight. He’s at Bonnie Lautenberg’s in Watermill the 24th. Sunday the 18th, Kamala schleps to Sagaponack, Watermill and Southampton. Cory Booker never met a mike he didn’t like. He’ll be all over the Hamptons because he’s always all over the Hamptons. And Bullock, from that great state of Montana, which honed such thinkers as Dana Carvey and Evel Knievel, is Saturday the 31st Easthampton then Sept. 1 and 2, Bridgehampton and Sagaponack. Off they go, into the wild blue yonder ... like way off . . .
Crystal ball time
BILL O’Reilly, whom the president praised in his Hamptons address, says: “It’ll be Biden unless he self-destructs or opponents harp on his son’s China connections. But he’ll make a deal. He’ll add a woman of color onto the ticket. It’ll be Kamala.” And what about Elizabeth
Warren? “Please. Middle America won’t vote for a Socialist, although Trump would love that because then he could ring in Cuba . . . Venezuela . . .”
What I hear
BARACK and whatever his wife’s name is make their token appearance for Biden at the convention . . . Bootleg afterward? A CNN hire? Political analyst? Twoyear contract? Like an hour nightly? . . . And NYC’s new three-letterer p.r. grabber just because she looks good with the center part in her hair? She’ll go for a permanent spot spitting on “The View.” I mean, please. An ex-bartender, her in-depth savvy stopped at the ingredients of a sloe gin fizz.
SOULCYCLE, bike riding, exercising, hikes, yoga, tai chi, judo, sports, personal trainers, swimming, running? Oh, please. My personal advice is just to stay healthy, eat lightly and have a good brisk sit.
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.